Welcome

The Virginia Constitution provides Commonwealth’s Attorneys broad authority to prosecute criminal cases. As elected constitutional officers, Commonwealth’s Attorneys occupy a unique position of public trust directly accountable to the people they serve.

If elected, I will:

Exercise integrity, judgment and fairness;

Preserve confidence in the fair and transparent conduct of the Office;

Expand community outreach and education to better identify and prevent crime;

Support efforts to expand the DNA database to protect victims of crime and reduce wrongful convictions;

Stand with law enforcement.

People expect the Commonwealth’s Attorney to be tough. They also demand fairness. And if provided the honor to serve, I pledge to be tough and fair; to sacrifice neither goal to the interests of the other, but to advance both while upholding the constitutional traditions that set the American system of justice above all others.

While the Commonwealth’s Attorney is elected, the position must not be a political one. When prosecuting criminal offenders, zip codes and incomes must not matter. Neither must race nor ethnicity, education or social standing, gender or nationality, or whether you live on grounds or off.

“The citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.”